Myron Atkin has recently cowritten two books, including Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom published by National Science Teachers Association Press, 2003, and Inside Science Education Reform:A History of Curricular and Policy Change published by Teachers College Press, 2003 and Open University Press, 2003.

Arnetha Ball published an article in the 2002 Review of Research in Higher Education entitled “Three Decades of Research on Classroom Life: Illuminating the Classroom Communicative Lives of America’s At-Risk Students.”  

Brigid Barron received an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation. The award, “CAREER:Advancing Technological Fluency of Underrepresented Youth and their Teachers through Project-Based Learning Opportunities,” will support five years of research. Her article “When Smart Groups Fail” will be published in the summer issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences.

In September, John Baugh’s research project from the Ford Foundation, entitled “Linguistic Profiling: Evaluating Unequal Access to Fair Housing, Education, and Equal Employment Opportunities,” was funded for three years for $500,000. He also recently published an article in The Southwest Journal of Linguistics and is currently consulting for the new PBS documentary “Do You Speak American?”

Jo Boaler’s  book, Experiencing School Mathematics:Traditional and Reform Approaches to Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning, was published by the Lawrence Erlbaum Association in 2002. Several of her articles have also recently appeared in Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Mathematical Thinking and Learning, and For the Learning of Mathematics.

Martin Carnoy, along with SUSE alumnus Luis Benveniste (PhD ’00) and Richard Rothstein, wrote a book entitled All Else Equal:Are Public and Private Schools Different? published in 2002 by RoutledgeFalmer.He also published an article with Susanna Loeb in the Winter 2003 issue of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and is vice-president elect of the Comparative and International Education Society.

In March, Elizabeth Cohen was selected to receive the first award for a distinguished career in Applied Sociology of Education by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Sociology of Education SIG. Her nomination was selected unanimously by the awards committee.

Stephen Davis co-authored a book with his wife, Patricia, entitled The Intuitive Dimensions of Administrative Decision Making. It was published in February 2003 by Scarecrow Press (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers).

Elliot Eisner’s most recent book, The Arts and Creation of Mind, was published by Yale University Press in November 2002.

In February, Linda Darling- Hammond received grants from the Hewlett Foundation, the Morgan Foundation, and the Flora Foundation to support the development of a teacher performance assessment with a consortium of California universities, including Stanford, the University of California system, three CSU campuses and Mills College. She recently published articles in Educational Researcher,American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, and Journal of Teacher Education.

Pam Grossman, Sam Wineburg, and Stephan Woolworth won this year’s Exemplary Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K. Michael Kamil was recently appointed Chair of the Planning Committee for the National Assessment of Educational Progress. In March,  

Michael Kirst released the report “Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K-12 and Postsecondary Education Systems Undermine Student Aspirations” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The report, funded by Pew Charitable Trusts, focuses on the lack of signals and college preparation for the 80% of students who go to postsecondary institutions that accept virtually all applicants or are open enrollment.

In February, SUSE and the Graduate School of Business celebrated the life work of James March at an event featuring the premiere of “Passion and Discipline: Don Quixote’s Lessons for Leadership,” a film he produced, along with awardwinning documentary filmmaker Steven Schecter.

Francisco Ramirez has been appointed to the AERA International Relations Committee as Chair Designate for 2003-2004 and as Committee Chair for 2004- 2006. He has also been elected the AERA Chair of Sociology of Education SIG. He is the coauthor of Science in the Modern World Polity: Globalization and Institutionalization, published by Stanford University Press in 2003.

Richard Shavelson, with Leta Huang, recently published an article in Change (2003) entitled “Responding Responsibly to the frenzy to Assess Learning in Higher Education.” He also published an article in Educational Researcher and a chapter in the book On the Relationship Between Mathematics and Science Achievement in the U.S.

Myra Strober received a grant from the Ford Foundation for a research project entitled “Breaking Out of Disciplinary Confines: How Faculty Develop and Use Interdisciplinary Knowledge and How Institutions Affect the Process.” Last October she was honored by the California Chapter of the National Organization for Women for lifetime contributions to women’s education. She also co-authored an article published in the Harvard Business Review in April 2003.